Demons (1985 film)
[5] The plot follows two female university students who, along with a number of random people, are given complimentary tickets to a mysterious movie screening, where they soon find themselves trapped in the theater with a horde of ravenous demons.The film features an instrumental score composed by Claudio Simonetti, as well as a soundtrack that includes songs by Mötley Crüe, Accept and Billy Idol.On the Berlin U-Bahn, a mysterious man in a metallic mask offers university student Cheryl two tickets to a free screening at the Metropol, an isolated and recently renovated local cinema.Other attendees of the screening include a blind man and his guide daughter; a married couple; a boyfriend and girlfriend; and a pimp named Tony along with his two prostitutes.George and Cheryl use an emergency grappling hook and winch to climb to the roof, where they are attacked by the mysterious man from the subway.As Cheryl's body collapses into the roadway, George —now the sole survivor of the cinema— and the group drive out of the city to an unknown future.[2] Meanwhile, Dario Argento, who was fresh from the financial success of Phenomena (1985) and was beginning to be interested in producing films as he had done previously with Dawn of the Dead.[6] Sacchetti then said Argento paid him and had him leave the project, only to invite him back towards the end to give the script a final polish.[11] In a contemporary review, Kim Newman stated in The Monthly Film Bulletin that "Demons suffers from the same uncertain, over-emphatic tone that brought down producer Dario Argento's own Phenomena" and that "the film has horror effects aplenty-gory deaths, transformations into dribbling monsters, a demon bursting out of a girl's back - and an interesting set of ideas and situations, but flounders badly as it tried to build up a high energy cumulative effect.[11] Bava spoke of a second sequel as early as January 22, 1988 with Argento stating it would be called Ritorno alla casa dei demoni (transl.
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